, 1887-04-22
ODDS AND ENDS.
Stray Leaves From a R%eDorter's
Note Book,
Gathered During the Past Twenty,
Four Hours.

~tionally heavy.
Mrs. P. II. Scriber died very suddenly
at an early hour last evening.
8 No trains run on Sundays over the
Cheyenne & Northern railroad.
The Stock Journal is shortly to move
to the first door north of its present loca-
ton.
The ..McGibeny family appeared at the
opera house last evening, butthe audience
was not large.
The usual number Of ordinary DRINKS
were iudicially disposed of in the police
courts yesterday.
Deputy Clerk OF Court Fry is busy
making up the court docket for the COM
ing May term of court.
The John f. Reynolds post is making
arran eements for memorial exercises April
27, Grants birthday.
Winter and winter winds still linger in
the lap of spring, and either snow or dust
or both are scattered over everything.
Chairman Altman. of the park and
public building committee, is having a
wire fence built around Lake Minnehaha.
A concert and festival occurred at the
Second Baptist church on Tuesday even.
ing which proved to be a decided success.
1t looks now as though there is some
chance for Doc Hayford to get his
railroad built from Denver to Laramie
City.
Messrs. J. G. Baird. j. w. Hammond
and Luke Voorhees, bought four sections
of railroad land north of the city yes
terday.
Why did not the trainers of the cav
enue ordinance" give us a Corlctt av-
enue somewhere in the central portion of
the city.
w. S. Weaver and John Shuneman
bought yesterday of Joseph Dillman lot
8, block 362, in the eastern portion of
the city. The consideration was not
stated.
Governor Moonlight, who takes great
interest In fine shooting, advises the gun
clubs of the city to consolidate and make
one club of the members of the two now
under organization.
While a new court house or an addition
to the old one would be very desirable,
the county can o very well build one
until authorized BY the legislature to issue
bonds for that purpose.
Deputy Sheriff Smalley will take a trip
into the country to-day or tomorrow for
the purpose of serving the order in the
water right proceedings on the parties
whose m are mentioned therein.
The Burlington & Missouri surveyors
are surveying in various directions around
the city and yesterday were up in the
vicinity Of the Five Mile ranch, but for
what purpose is best known to them
selves.
1t costs Sc a month to furnish the pris-
oners in the county jail with tobacco, and
even mSle IL W COhb lhlCt ludI uuiOunb IL
is not probable hat Our board of county
commissioners would refuse it to them,
for 1t is right that they should have it.
THE LEADER inadvertently stated yes
terday morning that tho coal mines re-
Gently discovered near South Bend were
upon land belonging to Maj. Glafcke.
The mines are six miles below his ranch
and there are no indications of coal upon
the land alluded to.
The people OF Cheyenne and the city
itself ought to give all possible encourage
ment and assistance to the capitol corner
stone committee in the attempt which it
is making to get up a creditable celebra-
ton on the occasion of the laying of the
capitol corner stone.
The United States signal observer re-
ports as follows: Maximum temperature
yesterday, 480; minimum temperature,
300; highest wind, 40 miles per hour
direction, N. W. At 3 p. m. the tenn
perature at Salt Lake was So. Denver AS,
Omaha $50, North Platte 610, Yankton
49o.
Property transactions.